02 ‘The Sly Persuaders’ – Paradise Discotheque (1990) – Crime and the City Solution
- January 9th, 2012
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- starts with bass, drums, piano, some horn flourishes
- wandering bass
- drums: toms and ride, handclaps
- piano chords, tumbling on the 1s
- vox enters
- horn riff builds
- section 2: horns out, violin riff enters, chord changes underneath
- horn riff re-enters
- section 3: back to start instrumentation, piano riff
- horn riff re enters
- snare enters as punctuation
- vox: call and response; delayed distant repeat of lead vox, line by line
- drums and bass drop out, leaving horn riff and hand claps
- structure: 4 sections
1: Bbm riff
2: Ab, Bbm, Ab, Bbm, Gb, Ab, Bbm,
Ab, Bbm, Ab, Bbm, Ab, Gb, Ab, Bbm etc
3. Bbm, Fm, Bbm, Fm
4. return to Bbm riff
KEY IDEAS to plunder
- vox: call and response; delayed distant repeat of lead vox, line by line
- section 2: horns out, violin riff enters, chord changes underneath
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